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1970 Music continues to make significant impact
with the largest ever rock festival held on the Isle of Wight with 600,000
people attending, including some of the biggest name in music including
Jimi Hendrix and The Who. This is also the year The Concord makes it's
first supersonic flight. Another significant change is the age of voting
is now lowered to 18 in the US.

Cost of Living 1970

How Much things cost in 1970
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 5.84%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 838
Average Cost of new house $23,450.00
Average Income per year $9,400.00
Average Monthly Rent $140.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 36 cents
Shaefer Pen $9.95
United States postage Stamp 6 cents
Sports Illustrated 15 cents
Mans Westclox Watch $18.00

What Events Happened in 1970

Cyclone in
Bangladesh kills 500,000

Earthquake in Peru kills 67,000

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations

Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles
have disbanded

Apollo 13 mission to moon abandoned

Japan becomes the worlds
fourth space power, after the Soviet Union (1957), the United
States (1958), and France (1965).

First Earth Day celebrated

The Liberian registered tanker Pacific Glory
spills up to 100,000 gallons of crude oil into the English Channel
creating a huge oil slick and an environmental disaster

Boeing 747 makes its first
commercial passenger trip to London

South Australia suffers it's
worst number of fires killing at least 75 people and had injured another
800.

US Invades Cambodia

100,000 people demonstrate in Washington DC
against the Vietnam War

Cholera epidemic in Istanbul.

Edward Heath and the Conservative Party wins
the British general elections.

The Worlds Population reaches 3.63 billion

The US Population reaches
205 million

The US has 85 people per
sq mile

Japan has 1,083 People per
sq mile

The US and the UK lowers
the voting age to 18 from 21

Large floods in Vietnam,
kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless

The Aswan High Dam in Egypt
is completed

Chicago Seven defendants
found guilty of intent to incite a riot in 1968 ( later overturned by
Court of Appeal )

Dow Jones drops to 631

National Guards fire on and kill 3 protesters
at Kent State University

Brazil wins their third world
cup with Pele as the captain

Popular Culture 1970

The Isle of Wight Festival takes place . 600,000
people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include
Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian,
Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Jethro Tull.

Jimi Hendrix dies of barbiturate overdose
in London

Simon and Garfunkel release their final
album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Popular Films

M*A*S*H,

Patton

Woodstock

Hello, Dolly!

Catch-22

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Popular Musicians

The Beatles
with " Let it Be "

The Jackson 5 with " ABC and I want you
back "

Edwin Starr with " War "

Technology 1970

First Jumbo
Jet goes into service

Concorde makes its first supersonic
flight (700 mph/1127 km/h).

The First Computer Chess Tournament
takes Place

After many years of court battles damages
awarded to Thalidomide victims

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country
( or attributed to First Use )